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Yet Another Human Being Dies While Detained at Rikers Island Jail Complex
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, July 23, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Yet Another H…
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Yet Another Person Dies at Rikers – the 3rd Death in July and the 25th Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, July 16, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Yet Another P…
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Dialed In: City Hall Set to Supply Free Phones to People Newly Released from Rikers
By; Reuven Blau via The City Rikers Island detainees fresh out of lockup — including some with serious mental illnesses — will soon receive free smartphones to better connect them […]
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Another Person Dies in DOC Custody – the 2nd Death This Week and the 24th Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, July 7, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Another Person…
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As Federal Court Holds Hearing on Crises at Rikers, Community Groups and Elected Officials Hold Protest to Demand Immediate Action
**PRESS RELEASE** June 13, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz – 347-201-2768 yonah@katalcenter.org, Follow online: #ShutRikers #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY | @katalcenter As Federal Cour…
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Tuesday 6/13, 9:00 am, Foley Square
**MEDIA ADVISORY** June 12, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz – 347-201-2768 yonah@katalcenter.org, Follow online: #ShutRikers #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY | @katalcenter Tuesday 6/13, 9:00 am, Foley…
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Citywide Elected Officials and Community Groups Rally Outside Rikers to Call for Closure of Jail Complex
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Citywide Elected…
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Another person dies at Rikers– 22nd Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Another person dies at Riker…
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Federal Monitor for Rikers Island Sounds Alarm in Scandalous New Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Federal Monitor for Rikers Isl…
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RELEASE: New Report Outlines How Connecticut’s Excessive Use of Probation and Parole Are Drivers of Incarceration
Katal Center Equity, Health, and Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2768 Follow on socials: @KatalCenter | #FixPr…
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Excessive, unjust, and expensive: Fixing Connecticut’s probation and parole problems
On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 we released a new groundbreaking report with the Prison Policy Initiative titled “Excessive, unjust, and expensive: Fixing Connecticut’s probation and parole problems.” It…
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Katal Join With Immigrants Rights Organizations to Reject Mayor Adams’s Proposal to House Asylum Seekers at Rikers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 22, 2023 Contact: Yatziri Tovar, Yatziri.Tovar@maketheroadny.org | (917) 771-2818 Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter: @…
